Frankland Estate Chardonnay 2024
- 92
- $39
- Drink by: 2026-2030
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Quite a luxurious Frankland Estate Chardonnay – moves slowly, richly imbued in toasty vanillin oak, mealiness, nougat, toasted nuts and ripe fruits. Fills the mouth with flavour and texture, a surprisingly hedonistic approach that is both sunny and fresh but also rich. Flavours entice in yellow peach, stone fruits, citrus, toasted nuts and poached pears, filling the mouth with ripe fruits with hints of savouriness. Acidity keeps things on track for medium ageing potential.
Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.
